With Twitter’s relatively new popularity come those who want to exploit it for financial or other type of gain.  A few weeks ago Twitter users were being sent links to malware.  Those who clicked the links were directed to a site where malware was downloaded.  The malware then sent out links from the newly infected [...]

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Most people are not comfortable telling the entire internet their whereabouts but they may be doing so unintentionally. One seemingly innocuous photo could result in people knowing the exact GPS coordinates of your house.

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At the end of April, Twitter introduced a real-time search feature integrated into the web interface.  This also included a listing of trending topics.  Since then there’s been an increase in memes that seem to be aimed at manipulating the trending topics. Some examples of these are: #turnons, #turnoffs, #inappropriatemovies and #notagoodlook.  Twitterers participate in [...]

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“Creating Technology For Social Good” is the focus for this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing taking place September 30 through October 3, 2009 in Tucson, Arizona.  The theme recognizes the significant role women play in defining technology used to solve social issues.  Megan Smith, Vice President, New Business Development, Google, and General [...]

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All this talk about mobile phones and wireless carriers has me thinking about the what I dislike about the wireless industry in the United States. It is that wireless carriers lock the phones to only work on their networks and lock out features included in the phones.

It is my experience in Europe and other locations [...]

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